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Prof Vicki Karaminas

Supervisor - PhD Programme

Doctoral Supervisor
School of Design

Vicki Karaminas is Professor of Fashion at the College of Creative Arts, 黑料网 New Zealand. She is the president and chair of fashion for the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (2012–2015) and the treasurer and chair of Subcultural Style and Identity for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Her book publications include The Men’s Fashion Reader (Berg, 2009); Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television (Berg, 2009); Fashion and Art (Bloomsbury, 2012); Queer Style (Bloomsbury, 2013); Shanghai Street Style (Intellect, 2013); Fashion in Popular Culture: Literature, Media and Contemporary Studies (Intellect, 2013) and Sydney Street Style (Intellect, 2014 in press). She is the principle editor (with Joseph Hancock) of the journal Fashion, Style and Popular Culture (Intellect, Bristol). She is the co-creature of the niche fashion label OPUS9 with Justine Taylor.

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Contact details

  • Ph: +64 4 801 5799 extn 63447
    Location: 5E15, 10
    Campus: College of Creative Arts

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Supervisor, 黑料网

Prizes and Awards

  • Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award 2021 Shortlisted Libertine Fashion. Freedom, Sexual Rebellion and Style, - Association opf Dress Historians (2021)
  • Individual Award for Distinction in Research - College of Creative Arts, 黑料网 (2020)
  • Norman Haire Fund for Sexology Studies - The University of Sydney (2022)

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Fashion and the Body, Fashion and Sexuality, Fashion and Representations, Fashion and Art, 

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Studies In Creative Arts And Writing (190000): Visual Arts and Crafts (190500)

Keywords

fashion, philosophies of the body, Representation, masculinities, sexualities, gender

Research Outputs

Journal

Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2024). Power + Fashion. Journal of Foucault Studies. (Number 36), 201-226 Retrieved from https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/7230
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., Karaminas, V., & Mountfort, P. (2020). Letter from the Editors. Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture. 5(2), 121-125 Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/article/783153
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2020). Time Cruelty and Deconstruction in Deconstructivist Fashion: Kawakubo, Margiela and Vetements. ZoneModa Journal. 10(1), 65-77 Retrieved from https://zmj.unibo.it/article/view/11088
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2020). Millennial masculinities: Queers, pimp daddies and lumbersexuals: Special conference issue. Critical Studies in Men's Fashion. 7(1-2), 131-133
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & Roberts, GH. (2019). Special Section: Post-Soviet Masculinities Guest Editorial. Critical Studies in Men's Fashion. 6(1-2), 5-11 Retrieved from https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/csmf_00002_2
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2019). ‘daddy’s Lil monster’: Suicide Squad, third-wave feminism and the pornification and queering of Harley Quinn. Film Fashion and Consumption. 8(2), 171-188
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & Roberts, GH. (2019). Special section: Post-soviet masculinities. Critical Studies in Men's Fashion. 6(1-2), 5-11
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (2018). Lady Gaga. Russian Fashion Theory. 47(Special 10 Year Anniversary Issue. Decadence), 156-180
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Radner, H., & Karaminas, V. (2017). Letter from the Editors. Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture. 21(6), 621-627
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2017). Lady Gaga: American Horror Story, Fashion, Monstrosity and the Grotesque. Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture. 21(6), 709-731
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Hancock, JH., & Karaminas, V. (2023). Letter from the Editors. Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities. 4(1), 1-4
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., Taylor, Justine, ., & Geczy, Adam, . (2017). Sailor style: representations of the mariner in popular culture. Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture. (1.2), 141-164
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., Karaminas, V., & Taylor, J. (2016). Sailor style: Representations of the mariner in popular culture and contemporary fashion. Journal of Asia Pacific Pop Culture. 1(2), 141-164
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Hancock II, J., & Karaminas, V. (2014). The joy of pecs: Representations of masculinities in fashion brand advertising. Clothing Cultures. 1(3)
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Gibson, PC., & Karaminas, V. (2014). Letter from the editors. Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture. 18(2), 117-122
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2012). Vampire Dandies. Reconceptualising Fashionable Masculine Style. The Fashion Theory - Russia. 3(4) Retrieved from http://nlobooks.ru/sites/default/files/old/nlobooks.ru/eng/index.html
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2011). Letter from the Editor. Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture. 16(2), 133-138
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2010). Vampire Dandies: Queering/Querying Fashionable Masculine Identities. Lambda Nordica. 5(6)
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2008). There is a Bug in my Ink Bottle’: The Graphic Art of Australian Women, Greenberg, Graber and Ord. International Journal of Comic Art.
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2007). Australian Gothic. Black Light Angels and Subterranean Style,. International Journal of Comic art.
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2007). Imagining the orient: Cultural appropriation in the Florence Broadhurst Collection. International Journal of Design. 1(2), 11-20
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2006). “No Capes!” Über Fashion and How “Luck Favours the Prepared”.. The International Journal of Comic Art.
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2005). Akira Isogawa: Printemps-Ete, Fashion Theory, The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, vo. 9, issue 4, pp.461-470, 2005, berg. Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture.
[Book Review]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2005). Exhibition review: Akira Isogawa: Printemps-été. Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture. 9(4), 461-470
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2004). Dispositions. Borderlands E-Journal: new spaces in the humanities.
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
karaminas, V. (2003). ‘(Slide Show) Greetings from Australia. Borderlands E-Journal: new spaces in the humanities.
[Journal article]Authored by: Karaminas, V.

Book

Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2024). Queer Style: Revised and Updated Edition.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2023). Queer Style. In The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress, 1800 to the Present. (pp. 473 - 490).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2022). GASTROFASHION From Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture: Fashion and Food.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., Geczy, A., & Church Gibson, P. (Eds.) (2022). Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals. New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America: Rutgers University Press
[Edited Book]Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2022). Gastrofashion from haute Cuisine to Haute Couture.
[Monograph]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2022). Between clothing and flesh: Kawakubo at the Met. In Rei Kawakubo: For and Against Fashion. (pp. 177 - 192).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & Taylor, J. (2022). Harry Styles: Fashion's Gender Changling. In V. Karaminas, A. Geczy, & P. Church Gibson (Eds.) Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals. (pp. 9 - 25). New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America: Rutgers University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (2022). Gastrofashion from Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture.
[Monograph]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Taylor, J., & Karaminas, V. (2022). Harry Style's, Fashion's Gender Changeling. In Fashionable Masculinities, Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals.
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2021). Gaga Aesthetics: Art, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Up-Ending of Tradition.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2020). Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City. In M. Barnard (Ed.) Fashion Theory: A Reader. Second Edition. (pp. 594 - 605). London, United Kingdom: Routledge
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2020). Lesbian Style: From Mannish Woman to Lipstick Dykes. In M. Barnard (Ed.) Fashion Theory: A Reader. Second Edition.. (pp. 307 - 327). London, United Kingdom: Routledge
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2020). THE FASHION CHAMBER AND THE POSTHUMAN DISSOLUTION OF GENDER. In Staging Fashion: The Fashion Show and its Spaces. (pp. 58 - 70).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2020). LIBERTINE FASHION: Sexual Freedom, Rebellion, and Style.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2019). Fashion Installation: Body, Space, and Performance.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2018). The Body. In A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion: In the Modern Age. (pp. 63 - 84).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2018). Introduction. In A. Geczy, & V. Karaminas (Eds.) The End of Fashion: Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization. (pp. 1 - 4). London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2018). TIME AND MEMORY. In The End of Fashion: Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization. (pp. 19 - 30).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
(2018). THE END OF FASHION: Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization.
[Edited Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Contributed to by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2017). Critical Fashion Practice: From Westwood to Van Beirendonck.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2017). Fashion and masculinities in popular culture.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2017). Critical Fashion Practice from Westwood to Van Beirendonk. London, UK and New York, USA: Bloomsbury
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2016). Fashions double: Representations of fashion in photography, film and painting. United Kingdom: Berg Publishers
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2015). Fashion's double: Representations of fashion in painting, photography and film.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., Johnson-Woods, T., Taylor, J., & Disher-Quill, K.(2015). Sydney Street Style. : Intellect
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., Taylor, J., & Johnson-Woods, . (2015). Sydney Street Style. Bristol, UK: Intellect
[Monograph]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2015). The Body. In AP. Palmer (Ed.) A Cultural History of Fashion in the Twentieth Century in the Modern Age. (pp. 63 - 84). London: Bloomsbury
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2015). WALTER BENJAMIN: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street. In Thinking through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists. (pp. 81 - 96).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Johnson-Woods, T., Karaminas, V., & Taylor, J.(2015). Sydney street style. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2014). Queer Style. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury
[Monograph]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2013). Queer style.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V.(2013). Fashion and Art.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2013). Vampire dandies: Fashionable masculine identities and style in popular culture. In Fashion Cultures Revisited: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. (pp. 366 - 376).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2014). Lesbian Style. In The Handbook of Fashion Studies. (pp. 137 - 156).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2013). Born this way lesbian fashion since the eighties. In A Queer History of Fashion. From the Closet to the Catwalk. (pp. 193 - 216). : Fashion Institute of Techonology New York
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2013). Australian gothic: Black light angels, appearance, and subcultural style. In Fashion in Popular Culture: Literature, Media and Contemporary Studies. (pp. 49 - 66).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
(2013). Fashion in popular culture: Literature, media and contemporary studies.
[Edited Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Johnson-Woods, T., Karaminas, V., & Chan, F.(2013). Shanghai: Street style.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & Geczy, AG.(2013). Queer Style. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury
[Authored Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2013). Vampire dandies: Fashionable masculine identities and style in popular culture. In Fashion Cultures Revisited: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. (pp. 366 - 376).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2013). Image: Fashionscapes—Notes Toward an Understanding of Media Technologies and Their Impact on Contemporary Fashion Imagery. In Fashion and Art. (pp. 177 - 188).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (Eds.) (2012). Fashion and Art. London, UK and New York, USA: Berg, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing
[Edited Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2009). Children's Wear. In MM. Maynard (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion , Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, VK. (2009). Urban Menswear. In M. Maynard (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion , Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Oxford: Berg.Bloomsbury
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, VK. (2009). Ubermen: Masculinity, Costume and Meaning in Comic Book Superheroes.
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, VK., & McNeil, PM. (Eds.) (2009). The Men's Fashion Reader. London: Berg.Bloomsbury
[Edited Book]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, VK., Cole, CC., & McNeil, PM. (Eds.) (2009). Fashion in Fiction. Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television,. Oxford: Berg.Bloomsbury
[Edited Book]Contributed to by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2007). Where Fashion and Architecture Collide. The Design Aesthetic of Shimni Pak. In PM. McNeil (Ed.) Shinmi Park: Changeability, The Fashion Trace.
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, VK. (2006). ‘Fashion and Costume in the Middle-East’,. In Encyclopaedia of Western Colonisation Since 1450. : Macmillan/Thomson/Gale Publishers
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Hancock, JH., Johnson-Woods, T., & Karaminas, V. (2013). Introduction. (pp. ix - xvi).
[Chapter]Authored by: Karaminas, V., White, C.

Creative Work

Black, S., de la Haye, A., Entwistle, J., Root, R., Rocomara, A., Thomas, H., . . . Taylor, JM. (2013). Lesbian Style, Jeans Opus 9, (figure 7.3) The Handbook of Fashion Studies. London: Bloomsbury Academic
[Design]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Black, S., de la Haye, A., Entwistle, J., Root, R., Rocomara, A., Thomas, H., . . . Taylor, J. (2013). Lesbian Style: Pants Opus 9, (figure 7.4) in The Handbook of Fashion Studies. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic
[Design]Authored by: Karaminas, V.

Thesis

Gerrie, V. (2023). Borderless Fashion Practice Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age. (Doctoral Thesis) Gerrie, V. (2021). Borderless fashion practice : contemporary fashion in the metamodern age. (Doctoral Thesis)
[Doctoral Thesis]Authored by: Gerrie, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
O'Sullivan, A. (2019). Wool bale stencils : a design history of New Zealand branding and visual identity 1850-2019 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 黑料网, Wellington, New Zealand. (Doctoral Thesis, 黑料网, Wellington) O'Sullivan, A. (2019). Wool bale stencils : a design history of New Zealand branding and visual identity 1850-2019 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 黑料网, Wellington, New Zealand. (Doctoral Thesis)
[Doctoral Thesis]Edited by: Karaminas, V.

Conference

Geczy, A., & Karaminas, V. (2020). Millennial Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals: Special Conference Issue. In V. Karaminas, & A. Geczy (Eds.) Critical Studies in Men's Fashion. Vol. 7 (pp. 131 - 133). Bristol, United Kingdom: Millennial Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Karaminas, V.Edited by: Karaminas, V.
Taylor, JM., & Karaminas, V.(2017, July). Sailor style. Representations of the mariner in popular culture and contemporary fashion. .
[Conference]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (2016). The Huntology of Fashion. Long Live Fashion. , The End of Fashion International Conference
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Geczy, A., Karaminas, V., & Taylor, JM. (2015, June). Sailor style: Representation of the sailor in popular culture and contemporary fashion. Presented at Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, VK. (2007). Ubermen: Fashionable Heroics and Masculine Style’,. In JP. Peers (Ed.): Kingpower Designing Masculinities Symposium
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, VK. (2006). Wallpaper Tiger: The Florence Broadhurst Collection and Questions of Appropriation in Design,. In KF. Friedman, ECR. Corte-Real, & CR. Rust (Eds.) wonderground conference proceedings. : Wonderground, Design Research Society
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, VK. (2005). No Capes!” Über Fashion and How “Luck Favours the Prepared”. Constructing Contemporary Superhero Identities in American Popular Culture. In V. Karaminas, & MH. Hill (Eds.): Imaginary Worlds, Image and Space
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Karaminas, V.

Other

Karaminas, V., & Geczy, A. (2020). Editorial. Millennial Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals: Special Conference Issue.
[Other]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V., & geczy, A. (2018). Queer Fashion.
[Internet publication]Authored by: Karaminas, V.
Karaminas, V. (2016, December). The Huntology of Fashion. "Fashion is Dead. Long Live Fashion".
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Karaminas, V.

Teaching and Supervision

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Main Supervisor 7 8
Co-supervisor 1 1

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • 2024 - Tanya Marriott - Doctor of Philosophy
    The Underfoot - an exploration into Eco-fiction character toy design.
  • 2023 - Judith Beyer - Doctor of Philosophy
    Antigender Fashion: The Boundless Possibilities of Gender-Fluid Fashion
  • 2022 - ~ Shaik Areef - Doctor of Philosophy
    Slot n鈥 Slide - A Concept Design for a Life Jacket for Flood Events in India
  • 2022 - Magdalena Karasinska - Doctor of Philosophy
    SMOOSH : a conceptual approach to adaptable flat-pack shoes for contemporary digital nomads
  • 2021 - Vanessa Gerrie - Doctor of Philosophy
    Borderless Fashion Practice: Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age
  • 2020 - Kathryn Hardy Bernal - Doctor of Philosophy
    Lolita Latina: An Examination of Gothic and Lolita Style in Mexico
  • 2019 - Annette O'Sullivan - Doctor of Philosophy
    Wool Bale Stencils: A Design History of New Zealand Branding and Visual Identity 1850-2019
  • 2018 - Dinah Vincent - Doctor of Philosophy
    Dressmaking: How clothing practices made girls in New Zealand, 1945 to 1965

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2019 - Alison Lundy - Doctor of Philosophy
    'this domestic sublime'

Media and Links

Media

  • 14 Sep 2015 - Magazine
    Creative Collision
  • 11 Jan 2017 - Magazine
    Brave New Wardrobe
    Interview on the future of fashion

Other Links